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sapienwasteyon Bots behind the game console shortage

There are services which give you a one time CC number such as privacy.com. I'm unsure how shipping address might also get similarly obsfucated (po boxes?).

sapienwasteyon Defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness

Yeah, I think this was executed wrongly (allowing the schools who originated the debt to profit and escape unaccountable).

I was specifically responding to the 'generally' aspect of the comment, where I think 'generally' debt forgiveness can be a very useful concept, and good for society.

Governments don't seem to mind inflating their currency sometimes which is (if denominated in their own) essentially forgiving themselves of debt ;)

sapienwasteyon Defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness

>Debt forgiveness in general is a terrible precedent to set.

How's that? Seems like the precedent was set a very long time ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)